ACTING SURGEON DENTIST IN REDUCTION CASES OF PNEUMONIA NOSOCOMIAL

Abstract

Hospital Dentistry plays a fundamental role in promoting hygiene in the oral cavity in hospitalized patients, avoiding the appearance of infections such as nosocomial pneumonia. The present study is a literature review about the relationship between the work of the dentist with the lowest incidence of nosocomial pneumonia, thus evidencing the importance of Hospital Dentistry. The articles were searched by the descriptors: "Hospital Dentistry", "nosocomial pneumonia", "oral hygiene" and "oral health and pneumonia" through the Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Information Center (BIREME), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), National Library of Medicine (PubMED), Network of Scientific Journals in Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Redalyc) and Google Scholar. Through the systemic analysis of the studies, it was noted that only one of the seventeen articles did not associate oral hygiene with nosocomial pneumonia. This type of pneumonia is developed only in a hospital environment, caused by bacteria of the genus Streptococcus, microorganisms common in the oral cavity. As proven in the article, the presence of the dentist in these environments considerably decreases the deaths caused by this type of disease, in addition to preserving the oral health of these patients who are immunocompromised.